Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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